Pygraphics, Inc. - Dynamic Drill Design

For twenty-five years, Pygraphics has been dedicated to ensuring your success and the continuing evolution of tools to benefit your designing and teaching efforts. Pyware 3D is being constantly updated and enhanced by Pygraphics’ full time technical support and development teams, providing up-to-date advancements in technology. Joining our worldwide Pyware family of users will ensure that you are never stuck with an out of date program. Pyware 3D is currently on version 4.1.x. If you are using an earlier version of 3D, it is time to update! Here is a partial list of what is now available:

ADDED IN VERSION 2

Interactive Features

New “Online File Manager” for uploading / downloading drills through 3D Accounts. With the 3D Performer’s Practice Tools program, performers (students) can download drills from 3D Accounts for viewing, practicing, and printing at home. Director’s can use the Director’s Viewer.

New Personal or School 3D Account for adding Drill and Production files online.
New drill file locking functions. Drill designers can put their drill online to be downloaded by any 3D Interactive or 3D Professional users (password access is optional) that can be locked from editing or printing. Should you want a user to fully access the drill, it can be unlocked over the phone by you using a one time password.
New “Check Messages” function for receiving important information from Pygraphics such as notifying you of updates, upgrades, and new offers.
Improved “Drill Open” and “Drill Save” dialog. New feature added that can download online drills from 3D Accounts.

Tools

New “Tape Measure” tool for measuring distance between two points in steps.

New “Snap To” function for snapping positions to nearest step (or half step, quarter step).
New “Average Interval” indicator displayed in the Console when a shape is selected.
Added the “Mirror” option to paste to mirror pasted shapes.
Added the “Lock Interval” option to the Morph tool for fixing the starting and ending interval while morphing a shape.
Added the “Smooth Shape” option to the Free Form tool.
Added the “First Position at Top” option to the Circle tool.
Added the “View by Symbol” option to all Editing tools. This option shows symbol of selected positions rather than a blue dot so they can be more easily identified.
Improved the “Find Next” feature in the Knife and Glue tools.
Improved the Rotate tool to rotate 90 or 180 degrees both clockwise and counter-clockwise. Typing a negative number in the rotation angle will give a counter-clockwise rotation.
Improved the hit area for all editing handles of all tools to make it easier to click on the handles on high resolution screens.

Printing

New “Print Cover Page” printout (including Legal size).
New “Print Cast Sheet” printout.
Added “Print Selected Sets” option in the Thumbnail printout.
Added a grayscale printing grid in the Grid Designer for photocopier reproducible charts.
Added area to the side margins of the printouts for some printers that were cutting off the count numbers.
Added the set numbers in the thumbnail printouts.